What changed
Every manufacturer listing on Cosora now carries a verification badge backed by three checks rather than a self-declaration.
The three checks
Business documents
GST registration and PAN are validated against the registered entity name before a seller can list. Mismatches are rejected, not flagged.
Physical address
For sellers who opt into physical verification, a certificate is issued against a confirmed address. The address on the certificate is a snapshot taken at purchase, so it reflects what was verified on the day.
Supplier agreement
Every seller accepts a supplier agreement at onboarding. That acceptance is recorded once and is not editable afterwards by anyone, including our own admin team.
What this means for buyers
A verified badge now tells you the entity behind a listing is a real, registered business at a known address that has agreed to platform terms. It is not a quality rating, and it does not replace your own sampling. It removes the first category of risk, not all of them.
Verification tells you who you are dealing with. Getting a price you can actually compare from them is a separate skill: see how to write an RFQ that gets comparable quotes.
